When Cornelia Lee was born on 15 January 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, John Doyle Lee, was 33 and her mother, Nancy Bean, was 19. She married Lars Pedersen Mortensen on 29 December 1863, in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States for about 20 years and Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 24 December 1937, in Sanford, Conejos, Colorado, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Sanford Cemetery, Sanford, Conejos, Colorado, United States.
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On October 9, 1848, an arsonists fire claimed everything but the outer walls of the Nauvoo Temple since the structure was made out of limestone and wood. It was meant to discourage the Saints that had fled to never come back.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.
English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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